The Sun. — London, England, 1808-02-06 00:00:00

Fx ten t, tnetitbriokAly.fortned •by:tbp Aqn*i l trition • in which the noble Lord opposite hOre sOclisiinguish- , a part. He carne now -to the,speond opinion, that of ,the last Adtnknifttration. He was desirous to spew the that if there was meaning in i.vorcls, or inecitisistency in'lnerr,' unless the Order of the 7th Jan. could be. interpreted awayi.as.lAttOgrxt.Vtell l o. ed to intetpro away. the,F r rench Decv,a i his Majes 7 ty's Government, in issuing.the 0004; had 1 right ! to be perfectly satisfied,' thlit hoWeVer . tliSiftortey :tot them might: be questioned by.those wlma.-wgt to the former Qrcloriv the principle they .could have no objeaion. He could also adduce .tjie atithOrity Ut that House in confirmation of his optniort„ On. his • own Motion sfo thd- - ftittral pNiduaiowoltheiOrder of the 7th'of January, a long discussion had, taken place. Not one word..did ha or .any:othel• 'MeMber urge against thg justice or the legality of that Order. It was distin&ly argued as a queStion of policy ; and it wasrontended by thde f entlembtroppeAite;•thzitithe , ' principle on which itOroceedecf wis'not further ex tended,- because at that titne a further extension wag unnecessary,bin that nothing would jtreveut_such'att extension' should it become requisite. I-J read the preitmble of the Orcler which asserted precisely the right.whicla his Mltivy's presnt..igiuiste7s pow as serted, the right of retaliation. indzedvhat.olse couid it be'? For all that recital 'could never have been 'made merely for the' purpose of aSserting.o . 'which the ordinary usage.of war enabled us to exercise. The . *inlet - its, therefore; of the Noble Lord, bore: as strongly- against theOrder,of the late Administration as against the Orders of thepresent. Adverting to. the kloble Lordrs reference to the Order of 1756, he • contended, that 'he w•as conipiely riii.s4ilten in that reference. The coasting trade of France ‘V;I4 pro hibited in 17 . 56, on this 4listirrq ground, that neu trals :had' no tor ,s:astitig trade 'right co carry that France in war; which France would have carried on herself in peace. "- With reSpea to- the natate,of tbe retaliation, 'W.as it ,16,be 'Confined ex at ) - to the cou%e purstmcl , by. the .Enemy If the principle of right to retaliate were admitted, it must alsohie•Od. meted • ttedthat 'We ha: 4to chose our ruts , f allation 5 otherwise in'; uuny instances, retaliation Would only criforce the (lest rnaion. of, the- poixfer Suppoia for:ress'wasneleged; this fortress sopplleti with wat-r by two streams proceeding from a srierite a t -CsOntitr): s anti Suppose that tin; besiegers e ntered' the hc."..titral awl:troy, and' diverted the 4 , 0 tit OM: Of th Stritiis,. would .it be ad v is,ible retaliation for tilo, he,iu s g,ixf.to entor•the-neutrA coon- f rY, and divert tli- cicirnehtilthe (Ali:I-stream ? French should haysi ( ryitrdp With them 5 ; we.cioclareri th it.then:they shouhlhay.o no trade at All. .With regard:to. neutrals, it was an 11 ifitridti.d;'1'ssei.tion, that though 'right to ,liutlre the eneiny;:we - had no right:ta injure the ene „.,4lK.hydneirtis:tlicit.-Avonld be prejudicial to neutral •rn'keti:iThelaskAdministraticin by their own Ordcrt acknowledged thins: assertion to be unfounded- -that . Order wa3 prejnclicial to neutrals—but were they , culpable for that ? Certainly nett. The question in a case of this kind Was, is the injury to Neutral Pow ers 0111), GOil l / 2 04lielithl On measures dueled against th e Enemy, •; : nieasere originally directed 'against! AN Antral Powers'? • The contindt' of thedast l it l anini'stration, in - hlvokinginp a WI)PW."iVqr, side .of which was -•occupied, by Neutral Powers, l' n) v l 4 l that they•atlinitted the justiciol-t his d&,•irine... ' It - ;llslo„be en .i co m en a; i l . Gig we shiwid have waited ; to - See' the catti; t ofithe : lireneli,liieree on Neutral', 'll)OwCrs ? •er:aynettier;F i onicit intended to put •it in. las.4l:rit»lrli4l,gatio)n , so.. ' —emnark }.tad ter tnitratVilggii)g the 0 I4e ( * Pt . th e: 7th Jam w J ames' inju t i otl i herArAdt,' at!kl went l4l' as•l9 say she would resist it. In the speeeii;of the -44re stdeotwirtioAlt*o.* 0 0 14 it vo4 stoiori-bOd as a gross violation of the Law 0Ck r 0Vi90....: the If, therefore; Ge ntleinete-opposite4.4.4la,abandon their own that they, did not ilian,39. p i nt in '34eree the :ileas ure whi.t.lt tliey prOinurg' , 'ltii& they .had n o ai:Cuse his - MaPsty' pi ccipitatioti. hie trusted lie had satidied• the i tat t iii pr;;;l;:iple'cif thes'e t‘ OichttSoo6uncil 'instifi•cir6y th&t.,-a w Ntifiim, and 1 :04r a',l ,1 ot havity• be t , rn iik-en by the"Heatt et s ' • xtca,ive tiroverimi-nt in tii6'cindeittirettie of his :111(iya1 'proiagative. but the Nob - re •L'OrdziiTit don 111,t, t: these were etinthidie 1 . :in 01a !in Clipria; tho . Sti - itutes of Advitird . ans\sver reSted'arr• tite,same• grunridil''a to t4t. forinersoh`)N4intil l ::--the y vierc s of w* whi'c. ig ' 1 1le A;r *as et ' ititietl' by priiraiktiv'ti take, and ; ":•t•I; which, it, was never intetidtkr StatnteS shovild intorfere ;The Ki r ntr '1, , ,;0u1d not be justifiable in takiiyj Stith meastires.fer finanCial, f(it• or f:97- politiCah expectien4'im4. flits tntertei-:211c:i 'neutral Property had ilcetiltri7 been t e prae tine `-of all foriner wars, Could spy havribeen etTeactl'?' BJ' every bloCkade, *re`tiNeutral. , had iltreat erted4th • Ships Neintal: Natitins in the port I ? lt)e l . ;'a°e - ct `4 !;i'lffi'''CorifiS'cirtion it they attempted J.P „ Ilt it. • If hi§' Majesty's •O`reFient Milikters 2 st l i ute3ctulle l7.,dward and . t enth ) Lot'd tatted'. 11',s - - -"dward III: to which he attention With . so much enll. • •• ,do lesf they boen:.tiointed by the Lord and his . friends:: - BUt' the - fact Was, by nettlier party &it), ,they been, violated, for they telateclaq n 4 state of- .eaco. and ociii.of-war..: .Wi !!spee - t to thei:iiterpiA naketi ''in consequence of the French Certi(itiateq"OTaiig , p:i,;nedby a French Coin 7 sul, and-given: to' neutral vessels, . for the purpose of i ) reverting their', seittire by French cruizt•rss' if by aCeepting these Certificates neutrals Attie ctic Ct tP II 6 Meitsurps, tit:France,' we had undauntedly a right to retaliate."'" As to any Interference 'which th 4 Orders ~.. in Council might..hii..v.e had with the N4VigttionLaws, be wished that subject to be distinCtly argued: but 1 )0t on that. rhiglit. Corisiclering,the extent 4f, those alktiA was not impassible but some. part of• them !night have been infringed.. ittit ' l '. O )P were: l ' l W' • !erect With, it was only as they freyi;:utiy been before, in instances in which Parliam:att semetinie thOtight indemnity - necessary - for 'the ML4.a•imes,,that bad been adopted,,alid„ sarnetinies recognized • .ofrhose measures. Even had lie beeci a %yap!, Whe=n those Orders were originally isued-t.lial• they .17,iolated &OMB of th e rrt.o tine nayi4ttion ws', at would not have .withlielci him ironi their atlein "laitne • ,!d, w as, • no. Another topic 4;to wthich the Noble Lard de . - • flint' by these Or.lt.rg 1 . ed ~;;u * Treaty With' America, ' W as tha t trittST'Blll;..-id a t rea,t3l.w-hiCirwas-ni:t ra! -- ified—which was ritturned tnis Country, with (ItteintittiOn'tiidt-eniesv s.. rr•, tional concessieftwon our pArtv vic, re . kroduced into s, it, it would not $e ratified ? 4drt,i'yibunfid to ad fiere to the stipulations bfltnerreatAere it was cow. c I "and ij` s' sriltittr,bitckwat fitTrkrt.67.- Wardi, from - one:quarter of the.glnbe to,the other? .klithitation of, the. Noble, Lord he would say a few. wards, at present, 'on the the Ord_ r 3: ° ‘'irlrat - 'l.s;tik the state - of - the - corhltries of Great Britain • nu& rtrinc4 :with Nis 061'.to , tratie ?i , Peevibutl; 041#41053,41%,pf,A1w orfigit 4x!coupcil, ,FraPcP,.,9l)'.4t gyvsl, ..the assistance of Neutrals, a's geat ad- ; ivirkeasPes' tr thdd 9s We'" poSSessed N% h our litivr;'l?kileed, • s belligetent , Avas.= ni)ntttlizes.l;:.,atid,Jklidered `lisrlep by neutral, !snipl_caKrying to France all that it. was itnportant fur `lr,;anc'e'tc; obtain. This - had been the case for so long a period, that even prior to the Decree of the , Q.,kat;of;Novelober,. tt Inight have been matter of ;(Iljeate ingulry, whether this Country ought not to ihave'resorted to the measure of 175 - 6: But surely i the Noble 'Lord tnust see, that after the • issuing of .the':Dei..e :of the_ (gist of November, a much !stronger measure, was necessary. .otherwise . French property conveyed in neutral buttoins would have safe. • British property in danger.--It had .been declared,' that the french Decree was a dead u't , w 1.4 nuthctrissd• t gre.4 mis,i'ion„oc ;Ortitin, c,rmi l. „ tiec, , s, indispen - sable"4p,us, diro fro.; 'Ede fniTs*tior , t .,, Wriicharticles were, to be sp4elli:Ll in the 'lira ,ti , . Leeilee. The spe‘:iikation unLier the la ts.iOrder-was . : tint eon tined to a lewtrticles,,btit €l6,l4railig,44les.l the 1 w.ho',c book of .rafe4,„and thereby, i suspended till the naviga,fi'ye laws,' which in the former case were but partially affetle4,-.oid this - itindey the sl - 4idow of '4n', -. , AA Nvilich let in but, three. or four.:: In his views : `. upon t4,,1s question, 4e dis:kiiiried atiy party motives,; , or any intentiOn to support any set of men. The clYeAlon.Avaa,: - whetber the, Orders' were, right -or 119 t, _and the decision ought, in his .opinion, to . be . subMitted to Parliament. He bad no ' 'ilostility. to the Right Hnn-Gentletuan, but be felt an irrecon 614%kt..enmity to the . unconstitutional - manner by which-. they had come into power.: Anott;Th Minna parte may beguilty of injuslice, that would not be a justification of them in imitating his aas.. Stich' an Enernyoughtto be resisted by a determined courage, not by_aa - . of violence. It. • behoved this Legisla 7 tire, ...lefore the Orders could have any cad upon foreign nations,. to, ascertain whether they were right. His Right Hon. Riendhacistatecl, that these i Orders were n retaliation of the measures of the Enemy.,..upon the same principle as the Oider of the letter, and' that it was. easily evaded. He was. well '7th January, 181)7. But he contended, .that they award that the Certificates of Origin gave oppor- ..could not be cdnsidred as measures of retaliation, thithies, by the assistance of forgery and perjury,. ;'because tide. French Decreeof the 21st of November, for' the introdnaion of our goodS on the Continent. .180, had never been aCted upon, so as to require Such.pradiceS,•howaver, were not to beencooraged;., .suclt 'a retaliation. In proof of this he quoted the and m f.ofar from its being a dead letter, France was. - answer of the French Minister of Marine to the tittleap fro to time supplied by new provisions tbr .. pticatiori of the American Minister for oh explana the deficiencies of the . Decree, The - different coasts' tion-of that Decree, in which it was stated, that the . had been lined with troop;, • and other :means of Decree did not alter the .maritime 1,0. v of France imprevement from time to time recurred to. Ambng with resped to captures ; that Anterican Ships the arguments which kid- been urgeit against the would not be captured when passing between the Orders ofCouticil, it .had been contended ahat they ports of America and England, and. that, it was only were the cause of the distress which our manufac- the entrance of such VeSsels into the Ports of France oirers experienced. It - had been 'said, that Franco with English goods, which amounted to a breach Of had shut the door against 'our cointnerte, and that we th e blockade, that would subjea capture.--- kid to caPture-- kid bolted it: But every one who was at all acquaint- Another communication, on the same subject, dated ed. with the sat'6 o 4 l .ketnast know that the; pressure the eat!) ofDeceMberegave a positiVe explanation, which our manutaettlres sostain4 was antecedent as the previous ate had a . negative explauation, that to .. the promulgation •of the Orders, and that it Neutral Vessels, corning front England or her Colo criginated in . the 'French Decree: If we entertained nies, would not be received M the ports of France; a .hope, that the great inconveniencestistained by and, if dete4ed endeavouring..to evade this De the. Continent .fot.atant, of 'British madofacgures, e ree by false PaperSe would be confiscated ;so that might produce a resistance to these Measures of the Decree of the 21St of NoVember had not been the' 'French GoVethritelit by which they were ex- . acted upon in France,.frOm the time*of its poblicia eluded, ;: oF policy evidently. was, .by increasing, that -lion uptra September last, in any manner to call for inconvenience, to endeavour to force. market. the retaliatidn'hy our Orders of Cotlncil. The Da --It wai . impossihle to say to what extent th e ate. cree had been adopted in Spain; end in that country 'bitrary,p6Wer of IrtainCe might compel the coun- too tt bad 'not bent executed any more titan in tries 'under • her dominion to • consent -to their own France, in any way's() as to • authyriae the measures ruin. If . France could - Occlude our good trout the . that had been resorted to,lay ijiis Government. The - Coniftient, they wotild • have been -- excluded had, i case of the Vessel, the Shipkeedess, 'an ~:\anerican, lotir': Orders- never appeared: If 'they were ex- with cart o . cif -English Merchataiiie, which after *ded, Mint look to the rest of the world ;of an appeal to the Admiralty. .Court of Madrid, had th i e trade with which, bythoseirery Orders,'we had. been released from a Spanish port, he stated to de secured a monopoly.' By that trade We must ended- monstrate thAt ixas no justification Of yOur to compensate ourselves for the losS of Conti , .. 'the Orders'of Council therefore in the condua of nentel creirmerce. With regard to the 'efflitt which the EneMy. As to , the case of Americe, it was .his these Orderaanikiit' have on out relations with Ame- wish that we should relax in our rights in her favour fica, 'that was a most itntiortant subje4; 's,:e-ne peri as touch as our cir6onstances would admit of; and sons apprehended, that they might induce America: here he was ready to deny the application of the to go . to -war He trusted 'Not ; he believecf_ principle, that wei•frad no right to search. Neutral: oot : no one would recetet,soch an event more than .MerehMtt'Vessels for any thing but contraband of , Mrifself:' He was fair"from 'entertaining 'the war. The insult to a• State could only be offered by . (alien idea, that we m,ight redeem ow o•.vo loSses searchiog. Vessel bf the tate ; the aeArch of a by he sutferings.of Atherica. Loss to Aineriea 'private Vecsel might Moonlit to a priVate injury, but loss to Gi-eat Britain.. He wished to prov; , 34t could not be consideretta publieinsalt. As to the with America, for although the mischief,: which Ante- :,:ceeiificates A: - - origin, his .I.tight, licit). Friend must : 1'44 would 'still - Cr htavae, most first felt by her;' know, that until,] ord Auckland's ',Ureate r they were tht‘y *child eventually be kit. by us. • Tho prosperity uniformly' regliired in : the ports of I:'ratice, and in of America was the prosperity of Gro a t ilrioaa,' and tim e o f peace: On all these grOunds he - should agree he w4s as, .amtioui to•preServe' peace \vith America; with 'his Noble .Friend in .opposiii the Speakida consistently with the rights - nod intereJts of this .l ea yi a gahe.chair,. because hetheughi. that this ,wat a country, as -any Man. he hoped ,that Peace . yi,6 st ion epon which his•Majesty.'s Ministers ought bd'preseri:ed, he belleYed that it wit'ufd'be pre- to f o rtify themselves With the strength - of served ; for if any enlightened view existediti Anne- ..rna ri t -and- the' sense• ot , the Nation, . at .a time rich of the principle of the IneaSere's which we had when, the eyes of the .world were tonu their'pro, adopted, it was impossible thattheyciSuld,be the close ceedings. , , of war. It was impossible that the Americans could 'The MASrER of t4' . 11 - 6,L LS observed, that . : look .et the Orders without perceiving there were. some of PaPers, with the contents of in them Many inStanCeS Of l tali ,, rinottoinjure Arne- which anylapse of ..tirne - could not .make.the-lionse Theie Were various exceptions in diminution ..be,tr4e4painted, atai it there were, as his Learned tif the .nsititary cifectrot those Urdet's whichshe wed :Friendhadstuted inconsistencies in the Orders, they that we were , desirous of d , oing as little' injury' to inightlie'cOrieCled Without being any catise of de, 'Ainerica as posstble.. If the Kahle Lord,' On if -re,. • lay, HHis- Learned Friend had said, thrit his Majesa view of the arguments that bed, just been urged,. or , ty'a.,Miiriaters .ought to, galorth on this occassion recolleetion• of his formee'iroprc!ssions - oh.thh.. . with t h e Whole strength qt . , the House of Commonl. subjeal, tinge to.dbub(whether, lie wits justified in It is 'thout it tivelventeritlfsn* that a measure charging the British. GOvernment-with ads-of via- of this sort bad been' refused, even to •the inspenion lench towards Neutral Nations, - ,it would be tbr:him ..,;of the, Hopae.et •conamonsie aod., it.had4ben_ been 'to consider`, what kind of impression might,be Made sa;si,, that to call for such a Paper would be to inter ;on America, by the notion that a great ietrt ofitha fere, with the coude4bf the War, and a deni.il of that wise COunciltaf England ;Vera) (*Opinion, that the 46t confidence,whirh was doe to Ministers ; that . undei discussion ,was one against which, on --no. 'big laid for its ptoductioh, and that Averyptineiple of honour and dignitytheAmerfealis 1 -1 1riiament ought net t 9 .4 possessed of it inn Alai* ought to take exception. . sach an impressioq, that couldmake' it 'file subjea of disciisSion. He under ,t.tel) :,t; authority, were:Tqld•to America,,the' was surprked, therefore, '.to find' that his' Learned eonscielences „niiglatiebe to;. both Fritnd 'hlt.l refrained from giVing fill this countries.- Hencettmended'thec considerations day upon' the lubjca, anti thist,..eirteriainingtho, to the attentiort 44'4 Honistifahli Gentrett4.Who' I opinions - he' he had' not eodeaVoured to recall might be . PreParnii.(ol support:the Nobie Lour : op t '. • the late Ministers from an aet which 'IIC. censidered • gnments, ,The'Bittish Government had been aao- -, unjustifinble: His .LearntAl • Friend had admitted, ated by no spirit -of .jealausy or hostility againitt t that on a principle of retitliation, .111CaittreS of . this maitre', PoWers, more particularly against America.' kind were i•uNtAible, mid he agreed vlrith hts.Learii- They had merely done that is Bich it was their duty, ed Fri net, that when such measures were to operate* ;to do;in consequence-of the measures that had been' • ...Upon innocent neutrals, it ought to he grave matter .adopted, by • the enemrdor the destrutlion of the of consideration whether they shoul:1 be resorted to. country: ,• -• • - His Learned Friend had stated,. that such. Measures . on-tended, that i ll ! t h e ought to.tollow the acts of the enemy, or'otherWiSe Dr. LAURENCE they would not be at% of retaliation.. With this toent , i which la id been' 'uSed .hy his Right. on. pert ; but when the Enemy Friend, made in fitvour of the ptineipletni r lintatned d'tric'e agreed hi , i . N . ob/e •vrioo:lf tver there wo a , dep.trt . ed tr ‘ ott . i: . 4ustiee, he tray • ()I : opinion that we . were justified retaliating sobiance, .and gnat 'when 'no' Measuie of ntic;nitude, that might affeCt . , bound to adhere. tO the form; And' he Was surprls-: (I',o gre;ll. inteic4s of the, Countr, pllgt not 10 pass . ed, indeed,•to-hear the NOble'LOrd Who opened tills WithOni the sedulot is attention of Parliament; it vas debate, put the 'constrtiCtion he had upon the French the pre-,ent. t The Orders of Council should he Decree IRO, I)ec..ause that construction . took away sidered in three peints of view; ist, As to'rheir . . nli justification i,... from. the Order of the 7th of . .14n.' aimplici!y or complexity ; ealy, : As to teen' legality i t 897 ‘ ,. trds : roatter of astonishment to.him :to according to the,tritinicipal I.4lyvof the Cot.tatry.; ; 811,1 3,4, As to thei legality. liceordina. to kite L aw , pear aoy oho who had 'uttered le in suppert of N:tions. he flambe! . and variety of the Orders of the Or of t 8 0 .7, object to he U.ders then un- - net cOnaideratirin. The very ",curable 'of the ler and 11!`.xplanator; Orders created much complitk contusiou, atid.thci:e wore Many ohjeCtions to . met Order Was a refutation .of the Noble Lord's diiferci-nt ii;irts of their), so.ne of which even went CO stated theinAs arguments. Thar preatohle grass , tice theFrench - Deeree to be' the tnundetiort Of the their heality Their interferimce with the freedom ee • : • Order 'The Noble I•orct and 1a learned Friend Coil and Security Of foreign [MI Ch:lntS ' ineotlSiSlCW , ' ' 1,1 . 1t1) the . - Provi;iic,:ei4. of .M, lg .s u a Chaim, w hi c h . (0 .. 'tended tail that France did oot Miderstand the De-. (joined, tlut eVery faCility should hegivoi crek, accordin,!•Y to the coustriv:tiint Upon which the im.yro:cants trading in merchandiZe o . " -711:Yi prOhebiii," that is by in shit. laW.;. But the ; Detract. could' underE..tand it . Kr. ',For his part, he orithee ( -YrriCrs preceeded; brit that no person regling the'' Litu i of Orders, tit hi:J6)4A atone c r oald not StXr Cvbatbikr cOrrstruaioo ci)tild be put thy. Tess abilsc of the, ALt of the ,aad hrtfttrt cen xttli r the-G6vermm.lll of Y,l ''' o94 k the hat.;lt of making 014con , lei q u'od, , - " ree3.- .1 7 1 . anc,1. had itake(.3,.that our . - trOtirThe inarturne in..dec4rtner foto „i;," n,tna • • - lc , r•P . sta - ce 'of. loentfcle, will the '1 • ,dr ing in bY!'). - ..:;). i,;,. Without any as:t of The wa or° L;;40(.1:., fore not . nee.:,:try to . h...tiptiped to ilvti`Nlk.-4 1-f v , wputdpot t liere WC;i'e ,(,,, preasions in the French ~,EM:ree ; bi_tr lies enahled,,. them, to put their .own Construi:tic r 1 it might suit el,ol . 9r,,toiplax, exe,,utioli, if neutral naticni shouldmake a spirited resistance, Gr .toinfo it, it they, submitted, ~[ACordingly. , nut wi:ll,l..illdiirg the -explanation given _to the. 11.,c , ..ricLin.7,1ini , icr, aCI Cr the ,lapse of ,somq time, sv11 : .11 th,l had'• been deceived, the interpretation slat had .siuce heeti publishedbf the Decree decl3re,4 that V..e.iciST, coming from English, ports should . ue captured. was surprised that-till; interpt . e.tafion, more sophisti cal than any other. otlicial.l'oper s except the D:cree itself, bad satisfied the Americans. But it bad not, . he was convinced, ,satisfied them;. though here, - - where their interests were better argued lhan try , themselves, that impression wig' bt be entertained,--- During. the French lleyoltitiou, be remembered th. t the conchldt of the revolutionisti was ciefendo in this Country, upon ground, which they never thought of themselves, ,until they, saw them in the accounts of the Proceedings of the British . Parliatnent. He had geen an. Ad of the American GOngtess, which did not refer in the degree to that satisfaaion, The VfLuch si3, that the Decree of the ').iAt of November did not'alier the maritime law of France.* ,He did not know what law was :meant here. There had been many such laws against neutrals during the ReVolution, and 'if J the explanation eferred ,to them, the. Decree did not alter them— The explanation, lio%ve,-(,u, did give, every satisfaaion as to the constru:tlon cat ti:,-.: re striaion, Or the extension of die Decree, \Villa' was thybost important information .ror Alnerica to vo ceive. The single CaSe that. had ken 'stated by.hiS Learned Friend, as, it took..place in Spain, went, io, the whole case, and shewed, that net ,eyen was tlii Decree executed to the confiscation of British g0(4.4. which his .Learned Friend had admitted tulle welt n the provisions of, tlio Deo-ce, It was upon ,that ground that' the late . Ministers had founded their Order, which in the debate this time twelvemonth they declared not. to 6e a limited, measure, .bat hi, tendedlo by followedupbytuore vig2roui measUrcs„ if France should: persevere hi its ileinsiice. 'What ' was the note deliVered with the trea y to the A.'lner Jican .Minister, hut. a declaration tilAt WO slith'ild retaliate to any exteqt Which the. conhiet or ih-,nly,-; and the submission of Neturels might render 1i .1.1,57 .Cessary ?. These, Orders only declare the petislit .France and her Allie 4 in a st.litc. of. bloeltakle, ,1i...1,fl their produce contraband of war i.,thid,A i inv had done the, smile by this ..,Conntir„.„ o,:e.,s&,ititt tions Were. so many m‘tigations, vyhian;'pkb,AN, rendered the Or4ers• moreexceptioliabV.,7/51;:y the coast from Brest to the Elbe was treclareVit War in, a state of blockade, cotrn...rci..ll rt:fllttßDs were first conueaed with the bloc'i,ade. ~ lYteili West to Ostend,could he justly .blogkaded, but met the coast from .Ostend to the, Elbe. /ill Ve6:;:fi, therefore, not . coming item or gohig, to F:arse,:, were permitted to passuntuolw,ted to and from the Ports between Ostend and the., Elbe. • The Oyde 4 Counil .441 Apt' could not; alter 1110 law of nations. The,,King might issue his DeolaTation, • tia:Juse 'ho Was not to. leave his. Courts to inter, what e.:as,tli.Liw of, nations, but the King's Declaration did not alter the law of nations, but was to he joitili,:4. IV ttiat law. . lie had pevyr,lieard isi._x ever read in al ;)r b0,...;!k upon the, subjeqt, that „the Pariimovol h3d ,Oq..r enaased' any thing upon the law yt nations, or had :ever complained, of the King's right to deciareW„pr _or contraband of -War. Municipal law could itp.i.ter regulate, upon o.lio }point. , :When the.s.,,CroWA,was entrusted ,with the power of makieg •War,, it sh4ld not be deprived ofothe means of carry logit On wish. vigour and etfeft!.::?The .tine,,i.ion reweeting the law . of nations Was rant, Of the jorisdietion and cumne tence of Parliament, and much inuronOw, thaklast year, when the Noble Lord said that it ‘veuld it t be safe to lay .Papers of this kind babas Parham*. ,The words of Jan ,A,1:1 of Parliament may 'enititenti onally.. trench ,upon the Prewgative, so stay uthe words of, an. Order of Council upon an Aat,of ,Ltr liainent... The question therefore iA a;, not whetse an indemnity wasinecess,iry„,init.whet bey. the la i 4, ,4' nations had been violated. .The. allusion Jtad b,...-.1 particularly_ made to one of the ,Orders, that . ye. speaing.Certhicates of origin. ,The l..)ecree reismir7 , jug 'Utast?, Ceilificateo hivi been said by his Lear led Friend to bi. a: mere municipal regulation. , Lle,wn idered•thesecertificates ot, origin ..;!! .4 projaibitiw, of Neutrals from carrying hrltish Cilonds, aid contended that this was a breach of the law of nations; .avid that Neutrals, by dins atimittinglhat'France hail die power to .legislate .44 Ithevo,i.niade theinselves )iec instruments against nso,",:.=Permins.,entertailiedsstrenge nations of the law of nzitl'orts,r when they supposed that a nation could not perform an a(t'ef vigour for its Own preservation,., t ithout violation .of 140 ji,1311 of its condo t. ,But this coyl.l. not,ip, a viohaion of theriTio,nt:.,la to toil'., ii:ii .I,tt ‘,li'll:i:-:tc tini.i;kiii:lt)fry,:!tkrittitt'4,:ttl:Tie the rule,. for'the case is out of th,.. n.a(i'. NViani the tiolculnilclY'.ll)):, which he intended for 'tu,',liiitil 'i 1,:,1(•,. hini to Peace. fl'' France could contioTh, to c,iii,i), all .tileL hdirantagsea ,of conitwisci: this.s.;ir.:,h ;',l,.*;,ti',il Tt,i-H, fwr(l,lliil,ti:ovre bW:..:.arere.pi.ely.;sfilill ‘Cvl(.)Cirgrilillitlirv. 6:11,,,:itt.,12,1r,‘,:r,,1,L) Pe,10":, and. this Country windd soon h01'r.,1.a,.e:1 to the altertittive: either tit ,saiwitiithOs' to Pea-e 6 )on. ,11 - ~,, .i ,. :-.„ 4 , - any terms, or of continuing the \Val- lil s. vt ~: if ess period. kle'thnitglit that Earoi.,e iiii .'its betide' to feel that a Maiitime Power ii,,inti,!:, le, depea,.nt uponiturope titan the Contin:ent is upon the :11,1:1- time Pother. Tie %add not sCiii'er lii,., Couutr. Ip. perish, mei ely br:cause'llie im::,:httrcs wiliA.tire 1-4 c...: ,cessary fur its pieser4tioe in4liit pi..h,i, ii 04,11 Necttral Commerce, willichtteriaParie 140 by 0: 0 "V jointed. '.'here is no contraa without it ivciprocat obltg:.ttion, and if Neutrals dad not oblige the caller party to ad here to the hw of !laden*, giey coudd 1101 tutu plain of us for not adbe'reing to it. : Upon :these. grounds. he Eaw ..: no reason to flu. buts the 'propriety,. of _ thc;se. OrdefS of, Coii':(ii, Which'. would, inipeach' the Oi der of 'Sa nuary , t 4 u 7, :i.sued .li'Y I an' Administration which ct,rtoilly Claimed to iossass a gr(!at ,ristioti of- tl.e 'O. iii dam, cat*l al on, mid `le:iri‘,7.,:; • of tale; 14. Lion. 4ticli in 'Administration could out have taken ,! r